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Oct 26, 2014

Every year our church has a Harvest Festival, which includes a chili cook-off, entertainment, trunk-or-treat, and costumes! I love costumes and thought this year it would be fun to dress in a steampunk style and decorate the "trunk" of our van to match. In case you don't know what steampunk is, here's what Wikipedia has to say about it:

So basically, I like to think of steampunk as Victorian Sci-fi, i.e. really fun costumes! Of course a trip to the thrift store was in order. As luck would have it, I discovered a local thrift store had already gathered steampunk inspired clothing and decorations and made a whole display from them. Plus, it was half off women's clothing that day, so I got my jacket, black velveteen vest, and crushed velvet skirt all for $7!

I found a lace skirt at another thrift store. Add that to the hat, belt, jewelry, boots, and victorian blouse I already had and I was well on my to completing my costume.